Contradictions and Paradoxes in Numbers 21:32

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Numbers 21:32 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Numbers 21:32. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Numbers, Moses sent some people to secretly look at a place called Jaazer. When they got there, they conquered the villages and made the people called the Amorites leave.

Numbers 21:32: And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.

Contradiction with Joshua 13:25

Joshua 13:25 states that the territory of Jazer was given to the tribe of Gad, suggesting a discrepancy in its conquest narrative.

Joshua 13:25: And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 2:36

Deuteronomy 2:36 describes Israelites conquering from Aroer to Gilead without mentioning Jazer, potentially conflicting with the account in Numbers 21:32.

Deuteronomy 2:36: From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:

Contradiction with Judges 11:13

Judges 11:13 references the territory dispute over land, which may imply a different version of territorial conquest than described in Numbers 21:32.

Judges 11:13: And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.

Contradiction with 2 Samuel 24:5

2 Samuel 24:5 refers to the survey reaching Jazer, indicating a revisited or unresolved status of territories, unlike the definitive conquest in Numbers 21:32.

2 Samuel 24:5: And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: [river: or, valley]
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